This 83-page report documents how Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart
Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection
under Israeli and international law. Israeli authorities have labelled
Eritreans and Sudanese a “threat”, branded them “infiltrators,” denied
them access to fair and efficient asylum procedures, and used the
resulting insecure legal status as a pretext to unlawfully detain or
threaten to detain them indefinitely, coercing thousands into leaving.

Make Their Lives MiserableIsrael’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel